Culture Quotes

A scattered effort is a poor effort.

If you're always doing what you've always done, you'll never see (or become) what you could be!

Words not kept break more than a promise.

Make your upper limit, no limit.

Open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.

There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human being to become.

Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve.

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.

They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

When it comes to culture, religion and mentality, most Russians identify with Europe.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.

It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.

In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don't really look for that, and I don't expect to find it in any city.

Battle rap is a culture. That's boxing, it's like boxing.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

We are hearing more and more from our clients, they want to know how to build not only a great corporate culture, but effective cultures in each of their smaller teams.

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.

Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.